Jungholz () is a village in the district of

Reutte Reutte (; Swabian: ) is a market town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative center of the Reutte district (''Districts of Austria''). Reutte is located on the Lech, and has a population of 6704 (as of 2018). Neighbouring muni ...

in the

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n state of

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that is accessible only via Germany. The lack of a road connection to anywhere else in Austria led to Jungholz being included in the German

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area until Austria joined the EU in 1995. It also used the instead of the

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as currency until 2002, when the

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took over. Letters to Jungholz can be addressed with either a German or an Austrian

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Quadripoint

Jungholz forms a pene-exclave of Austria that is connected to the rest of Austria by a single point, which is the summit of the mountain '' Sorgschrofen'' (). As well as housing border post number 110 on the normal

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between Tyrol and

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, a second border starts and, having gone round Jungholz, ends there. There are thus borders extending in four directions from the summit, called a

quadripoint A quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners. Several examples exist ...

. Two Austrian (Tyrolean,

) and two German (Bavarian,

Oberallgäu Oberallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu, the Austrian states Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the district of Lindau, and the state ...

) municipalities meet at that point, starting with Jungholz and continuing clockwise: *Jungholz (Austrian, north) *

Pfronten Pfronten (Swabian German, Swabian: ''Pfronte'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Geography Pfronten is one of a total of 45 towns, markets and municipalities in the district of ...

(German, east) * Schattwald (Austrian, south) *

Bad Hindelang Bad Hindelang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. As of 2008 it has a population of 4,915. Its sulphur spring was used for cures in the 19th century and today the municipality is a major health resort. Geograp ...

(German, west)

History

On 24 June 1342, Hermann Häselin, a farmer from Wertach in Germany, sold the area to Heinz Lochpyler, an Austrian taxman from nearby Tannheim. The buyer had the area incorporated with his other possession of Tyrol. In the Bavarian–Austrian border treaty of 1844 Jungholz went to Austria. Its customs union with Germany dates to a Treaty signed in 1868.

References

External links

Jungholz's official website
(in German only) Cities and towns in Reutte District Enclaves and exclaves Austria–Germany border crossings {{Tyrol-geo-stub

Quadripoint

History

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